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"Next time you accuse someone of stealing your happiness, you should understand it was an inside job." ~ Chris W Metz

"You'll never hear a person blaming someone else for their happiness." ~ Chris W Metz

“Happiness is a state of mind, it will never be found outside yourself.” ~ Chris W Metz

“We fail to comprehend the effect we have on other people by being happy. Being in the presence of happy people our own happiness tends to increase. The opposite is true for being around unhappy, ungrateful people, as they tend to bring us down. If we are truly happy and do not let other people effect our decision for happiness, then we become the positive force. This will start to reverse the mood and outlook of those that are in a negative state.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Happiness cannot be traveled to , owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley

"Be careful in believing happiness comes with a future event, a thing obtained or within another person. These things are all outside yourself and therefore will never be within yourself. Happiness is a state cultivated from within. As long as your happiness depends on something outside yourself then you can never be truly happy. The only way to become something is to be something; there is no other way to possess it other than within yourself." ~ Chris W Metz

“It is not difficult to see when we concentrate on the bad in our lives we tend to nothing but weeds. This eventually chokes out everything else. To see the beauty in life we must spread seeds of love, compassion, friendship and helpfulness always cultivating and nurturing their growth. nurturing these seeds they become the flowers in our life kept healthy by good memories and a focus on all that is good in our life. Those who continuously cultivate the bad memories of their life by reliving them, talking about them and sharing them often with others, are tending to their weeds.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"Water the flowers not the weeds, a simple enough desire, yet we plant the anger and plant the guilt and continue watering thoughts. If we could remember that once planted, to withhold the water, they too would wither and die. Watering with love, the flowers would be all we see." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"The road of Judgment, Entitlement, Anger and Hate will never lead to a happy life." ~ Chris W Metz

"Seek not your happiness in someone else, seek only to share your happiness with someone else." ~ Chris W Metz

"When we predicate our happiness on another person behaving a certain way, then we are always at risk of being unhappy.  When we make the decision to be happy, we no longer allow any external factor to decide our own happiness.  We can never control the behavior of others and so if we wish to maintain our own happiness, we have three choices in every relationship: love unconditionally; have compassion for them; or expel them from our life." ~ Chris W Metz

“Never allow yourself to need anything so much, that without it, your life is miserable.” ~ Chris W Metz

“An act to make another happy, inspires the other to make still another happy, and so happiness is aroused and abounds. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Those who seek Enlightenment must be careful of each of their steps. No matter how high one’s aspiration may be, it must be attained step by step. The steps of the path to Enlightenment must be taken in our everyday life.” ~ Buddha Teachings

"The room for joy gets cramped when it is stuffed with too many possessions." ~ Chris W Metz

"Happiness is not created, it is discovered." ~ Chris W Metz

"Sometimes all it takes to be happy is just a little gratitude." ~ Chris W Metz

"Happiness Comes not from having, but from feeling." ~ Chris W Metz

“Only he who Knows what is Enough will always have Enough.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Be a source of Joy, and let the critics and haters complain about the world.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“If we examine the differences between the pessimist and the optimist, we find the pessimist looks upon misfortune as usual and customary. They regard luck as temporary and abnormal, searching always for the next calamity. The optimist regards misfortune as unusual and temporary expecting their good luck to continue. Even the optimist will experience circumstances inducing negativity, however by focusing on the positive aspects of life, negative feelings will be fleeting.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Gratitude comes from love, joy and happiness, these are not physical things, they represent ideas or thoughts, and unlike a material item which is decreased by giving it away, thoughts and ideas are increased by extension or sharing. The person receiving the idea experiences more by receiving it and the idea itself is reinforced within the giver thereby increasing it as we give it away. Happiness and love like many things can be shared and given away and will forever increase upon itself.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“When we are content with all we presently have, we possess the basis for experiencing true happiness. Many get caught up in the trap of always needing more, the ‘if only I had X’ then I would be happy syndrome. If only I had more money, a better job, a better spouse, a nicer car, etc.. We can never be truly happy unless we celebrate and relish what we already have on a daily basis. Happiness and contentment comes from within and can never be found outside ourselves. Those that possess genuine happiness remain in such a state regardless of their current circumstances or the ebb and flow of material possessions. Joy is a state of consciousness arrived at when we are thankful for what we already have.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Lasting happiness does not come from the possession of a gift. Happiness comes from the memory of the kindness that inspired it.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety or possessions - we cannot be free. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy--the less happy you’re going to be.” ~ Anthony Robbins

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. ~ Abraham Maslow